<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7886"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7952">EU not sustainable because</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7950"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7951">the poorer countries lag,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7887"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7953">and only a few benefit.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7888"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7890"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7889">There's also an incomparability</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7891"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7978">of the member states. They</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7892"><span>are not peers.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7893"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7895"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7894">And, differences in standards</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7898"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7897">of membership make relations</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7899">unwieldy. Some have EU currency,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7900">some don't. Some have Schengen,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7901">some don't. </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7902"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7949">Meantime, there's no common</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7903">standard of taxation.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">And there's no coverage of</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">large parts of Europe. Are</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">Serbia, Russia and Switzerland</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">not European? 2/3rds the volume</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">of the Rhine, including runoff,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">comes from Switzerland.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">And what about the oil of Norway?</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">Right now, late June, we're back</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">to an Other to Russia, but no</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">tie to Britain, as in 1812 and 1942.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">In Bulgaria and Romania especially,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">tension builds up because the West</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">offers fracking, which they don't</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">want, and Russia offers dependence</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">on Russian natural gas. So, what</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948">decides on economic policy?</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7948"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7904">Peter Fend</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7947"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466877850681_7905"><br></div></div></body></html>